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It’s no joke: On April 1, Steve Frommeyer will retire as principal at Eminence High School and Middle School.

In an interview Monday, Frommeyer said the decision to leave the post after 22 years ranks as one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

The toughest, he said, was the decision to move away from Richmond, Ky., where he had earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at Eastern Kentucky University, and where he met and married his wife, Jenifer.

Eminence High School will take a big leap forward, in terms of technology, when students return for the 2012-13 school year.

Superintendent Buddy Berry said the Board of Education last month approved his “One-to-One” plan, which will assign an Apple MacBook laptop computer to every student in grades nine through 12 next year. The students will have access to their computers 24 hours a day, seven days a week to use in class during instruction and at home for projects or to conduct online research.

Technology in the classroom can be a double-edged sword. It obviously has its merits, as the number of ways to use computers in schools has increased exponentially in just a few short years.

But it also can be distracting. More and more students have their own cell phones, and most of these devices can do so much more than just allow phone calls. Games, music and Internet access anytime, anywhere, can prove to be too tempting for students to ignore.

The oldest living University of Kentucky basketball letterman may live in Henry County.

Layton “Mickey” Rouse, a member of the Cats basketball squads from 1937-40, now lives Twin Oaks in New Castle.
Rouse is 94. Basil Hayden who was 103 when he died in 2003, was UK’s first All American in1921.

Rouse wasn’t any slouch either. He was captain of Adolph Rupp’s 1939-40 Southeastern Conference regular season and tournament champions.

Since the 1960s, he has been a voice for rural America, and in 2011, President Barack Obama dubbed him “a voice for the land,” when presenting Wendell Berry with the National Humanities Medal.

Berry, of Port Royal, has been honored again for his works, his advocacy and defense of the rural lifestyle and his commitment to the land, when, in February, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to give the 41st Jefferson Lecture in Humanities.